Glenn Johnston Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Arthur Clutton-Brock reviewed Ezra Pound's Lustra for the Times Literary Supplement OTD in 1916. “Why should he so constantly be ironical about nothing in particular?” https://t.co/tY3F7gJzZ3

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“John Huston’s misguided adaptation of Under the Volcano is doubly frustrating because Huston is also responsible for one of the very best (and most unlikely) literary adaptations of all time: James Joyce’s near-perfect short story, The Dead.” https://t.co/iughi0qfO5

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The very charming Walden Books in Camden Town, London. Henry David Thoreau died OTD in 1862. https://t.co/GXCzaM91Pd

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American poet Jane Mayhall was born OTD in 1918. "My mother was unhampered by the logic of her caste. She brought home books by William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway and once...the short stories of James Joyce. In it I especially liked The Dead, a sullen, poetic gloom." https://t.co/uyMSDsntEx

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In July 1919 Katherine Mansfield responded negatively to parts of Ulysses published in the Little Review: 'it IS not Art; it IS not even a new thing.' James Joyce later said she understood Ulysses better than her husband John Middleton Murry. https://t.co/eNFmRqaGNI

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“Marital (and extramarital) relations lie at the heart of James Joyce’s Ulysses, DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and the work of Toni Morrison, a committed Janeite who devoured Austen’s novels” https://t.co/xi9pm0Buoi

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Hans Wollschläger died OTD in 2007. He published a well-received new German translation of Ulysses in 1975. He also translated the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe (with Arno Schmidt) and novels by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. https://t.co/1IdL1yOehw

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The Great Gatsby was published OTD in 1925. Years later F Scott Fitzgerald noted some of his sources on the endpaper of a copy of Andre Malraux’s Man’s Hope, including “a Ulysses (but not a Grant)” https://t.co/YbSNfILpG8

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@DavidCollard1 @sbslote @PeterChrisp @hutton_clare @NualaNiC Something similar appears in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss (1903), which is said to have influenced Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier. https://t.co/xFQGivcqWV

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“None of the modernists loved ellipses as much as Virginia Woolf, who was so taken with the three little dots that, at one point, she wanted to title her first novel ‘The … Voyage Out.’” https://t.co/mEzbg85Xfz